Dr. Fengwei An, Associate Professor, is working at the School of Microelectronics, Southern University of Science and Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from Hiroshima University in Japan in 2013, served as an Associate Professor at Hiroshima University, and was also a chief engineer at Panasonic Semiconductor Co., Ltd. in Japan. He joined the Shenzhen Hong Kong Microelectronics Institute of Southern University of Science and Technology in March 2019. His main research areas include high-performance video image ICs and high-performance AI/digital signal processing chips. He has published about 80 academic papers in top journals and conferences in the field of integrated circuit design (including TCAS-I, TCAS-II, TCSVT, TVLSI, CICC, ESSCIRC, A-SSCC, etc.), 9 Chinese invention patents, and 3 Japanese patents.

Educational Background

2013, Hiroshima University, Ph.D.

2010, Hiroshima University, Master's Degree

2006, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Bachelor's Degree

Professional Experience

2019.03 - Present, Southern University of Science and Technology, Associate Professor

2018.04 - 2019.02, Panasonic Semiconductor Co., Ltd., Japan, Chief Engineer

2017.04 - 2018.03, Hiroshima University, Japan, Associate Professor

2013.12 - 2017.03, Hiroshima University, Japan, Assistant Professor

2013.04 - 2013.11, HiSIM Research Center, Hiroshima University, Japan, Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Interests

Image Signal Processor

Video Image Processing architecture 

AI Accelerator Instruction and Architecture Design

Micro-Instruction Architecture Design

Honors & Awards

Southern University of Science and Technology 2023 Outstanding Teaching Award

APCCAS 2022 Best Paper Nomination Award

PrimeAsia 2022 Bronze Leaf Award

2020 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award, Second Prize

Selected Publication

1. Ke Li; Xiwei Fang; Yunhao Ma; Wenyue Zhang; Pingcheng Dong; Zhuoyu Chen; Lei Chen; Fengwei An*, Stereo Matching Accelerator With Re-Computation Scheme and Data-Reused Pipeline for Autonomous Vehicles,  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2024, 71(6), PP.2760-2773

2. Yangyi Zhang; Xianglong Wang; Gang Shi; Zizhao Peng; Lei Chen; Fengwei An*, Anti-Aliasing and Anti-Color-Artifact Demosaicing for High-Resolution CMOS Image Sensor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,2023,70(12),pp. 4928-4937

3. Gang Shi; Xianglong Wang; Yichen Ouyang; Ruoheng Yao; Zhuoyu Chen; Wei Zhang; Lei Chen; Fengwei An*, A Spatio-Temporal Video Denoising Co-Processor With Adaptive Codec, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers,2023,70(11), pp.4223-4234

4. Xiao，Lanxiang;  Chen，Lei;  An，Fengwei*, An 11.6aF/kPa Mechanical Stress Sensor with 0.808% Temperature-drift Oscillator for Flip-chip Packaging, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2023, 70(2), pp.391-395

5. Tan，Yonghao; Deng，Huanshihong; Sun，Mengying; Zhou，Minghao; Chen，Yifei; Chen，Lei; Wang，Chao; An，Fengwei*, A Reconfigurable Coprocessor for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Algorithms in FPGA, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2023, 70 (1), pp.286-290

6. Ma, Y.; Fang, X.; Guan, X.; Li, K.; Chen, L.; An, F*. Five-Direction Occlusion Filling with Five Layer Parallel Two-Stage Pipeline for Stereo Matching with Sub-Pixel Disparity Map Estimation. Sensors, 2022, 22, 8605. pp.1-17

7. Tan, Y.; Sun, M.; Deng, H.; Wu, H.; Zhou, M.; Chen, Y.; Yu, Z.; Zeng, Q.; Li, P.; Chen, L.; An, F*. A Reconfigurable Visual–Inertial Odometry Accelerated Core with High Area and Energy Efficiency for Autonomous Mobile Robots. Sensors, 2022, 22, 7669.pp.1-17

8. Dong, P., Chen, Z., Li, Z., ...Wang, C., An, F.*, Configurable Image Rectification and Disparity Refinement for Stereo Vision, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2022, 69(10), pp. 3973–3977

9. Yao, R., Chen, L., Dong, P., Chen, Z., An, F.*, A Compact Hardware Architecture for Bilateral Filter with the Combination of Approximate Computing and Look-Up Table, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2022, 69(7), pp. 3324–3328

10. Yao，Ruoheng; Deng，Huanshihong; Zhang，Wengyue; Chen，Lei; An，Fengwei*, Asynchronous Double-Frame-Exposure Binocular-Camera With Pixel-Level Pipeline Architecture for High-Speed Motion Tracking, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2022, 69(6), pp.2967-2971

11. Luo, Y., Li, P., Shi, G., ...Chen, L., An, F.*, Lane Departure Assessment via Enhanced Single Lane-Marking, Sensors, 2022, 22(5)

12. Dong, P., Chen, Z., Li, Z., ...Chen, L., An, F.*, A 4.29nJ/pixel Stereo Depth Coprocessor with Pixel Level Pipeline and Region Optimized Semi-Global Matching for IoT Application, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2022, 69(1), pp. 334–346

13. Xu, C., Peng, Z., Hu, X., ...Chen, L., An, F.*, FPGA-Based Low-Visibility Enhancement Accelerator for Video Sequence by Adaptive Histogram Equalization with Dynamic Clip-Threshold, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2020, 67(11), pp. 3954–3964

14. Xu, P., Xiao, Z., Wang, X., ...Wang, C., An, F.*, A multi-core object detection coprocessor for multi-scale/type classification applicable to iot devices, Sensors (Switzerland), 2020, 20(21), pp. 1–13

15. Xiao, Z., Xu, P., Wang, X., Chen, L., An, F.*, A Multi-Class Objects Detection Coprocessor with Dual Feature Space and Weighted Softmax, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2020, 67(9), pp. 1629–163

Conference paper：

1. Wei Zhang#, Yiwei Luo#, Yangyi Zhang, Jiaqi Ouyang, Guodong Wang, Xianglong Wang, Gang Shi, Lei Chen, Fengwei An*, A 43.3 bit/cycle Inflate Accelerator Featuring Static-Dynamic Huffman Decoder with Multiple Checkpoints and Optimized End-Of-Block Control for Hyperscale data, Proceedings - A-SSCC 2024: IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2024.

2. Ruoheng Yao; Shengming Zhou; Zhiyue Gao; Yangyi Zhang; Yiwei Luo; Lei Chen; Fengwei An*, Live Demonstration: A Video Denoising Co-processor with Non-local Means Algorithm for FHD 30fps Image Sensor, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May. 2024

3. Zhuoyu Chen; Shengming Zhou; Pingcheng Dong; Ke Li; Wenyue Zhang; Fengwei An; Lei Chen, Live Demonstration: A 1920×1080 129fps 4.3pJ/pixel Stereo-Matching Processor for Low-power Applications, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May. 2024.

4. Zhiyue Gao; Fengwei An; Lei Chen, A Non-Local Means Denoising Co-Processor with Data Reuse Scheme and Dual-Clock Domain for High Resolution Image Sensor, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits, Technologies, and Applications (ICTA), Oct. 2023, pp.146-147

5. Wei Zhang; Junfeng Chang; Zizhao Peng; Lei Chen; Fengwei An*, A 1920x1080 129fps 4.3pJ/pixel Stereo-Matching Processor for Pico Aerial Vehicles, 2023 IEEE 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), Jun. 2023, pp.1-2

6. Dong, Pingcheng; Chen, Zhuoyu; Li, Ke; Chen, Lei; Cheng, Kwang-Ting; An, Fengwei*, Live Demonstration: Supervised-learning-based Visual Quantification for Image Enhancement, IEEE 49th European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), SEP. 2023, pp.345-348

7. Yichen Ouyang; Xianglong Wang; Gang Shi; Lei Chen; Fengwei An*, A Dynamic JPEG CODEC with Adaptive Quantization Table for Frame Storage Compression, 2022 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), Nov. 2022, pp.119-122

8. Yunhao Ma; Xiwei Fang; Pingcheng Dong; Xinyu Guan; Ke Li; Lei Chen; Fengwei An*, Subpixel Interpolation Disparity Refinement for Semi-Global Matching, 2022 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), Nov. 2022, pp.105-109

9. Ke Li; Xinyu Guan; Pingcheng Dong; Zhuoyu Chen; Lei Chen; Fengwei An*, A 320 FPS Pixel-Level Pipelined Stereo Vision Accelerator with Regional Optimization and Multi-direction Hole Filling, 2022 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PrimeAsia), Nov. 2022, pp.85-88

10. Lanxiang Xiao; Lei Chen; Fengwei An*, A 14.39ppm/kPa Stress Sensor with Low Temperature-drift and High Linearity for turbulence Stress, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits, Technologies and Applications (ICTA), Oct. 2022, pp.66-67

11. Zhang, Y., Peng, Z., Yao, R., ...Chen, L., An, Fengwei *, Efficient VLSI Architecture for Edge Sensing Anti-Aliasing Demosaicing, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits, Technologies and Applications, ICTA 2021, 2021, pp. 105–106

12. Yao, R., Deng, H., Zhang, W., ...Chen, L., An, F.*, A Pseudo 943 million Frames per Rate High-Speed Camera with Asynchronous Double-Frame Exposure for Motion Estimation, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits, Technologies and Applications, ICTA 2021, 2021, pp. 103–104

13. Wang, Jipeng; Zhan, Yi; Wang ,Zhaoxu; Peng , Zixuan; Xu, Jiarui; Liu, Bingqiang; Yu, Guoyi; An， Fengwei; Wang， Chao; Zou， Xuecheng, A Reconfigurable Matrix Multiplication Coprocessor with High Area and Energy Efficiency for Visual Intelligent and Autonomous Mobile Robots, Proceedings - A-SSCC 2021: IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2021

14. Dong, P., Li, Z., Chen, Z., ...Wang, C., An, Fengwei *, A 139 fps pixel-level pipelined binocular stereo vision accelerator with region-optimized semi-global matching, Proceedings - A-SSCC 2021: IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2021

15. Deng, H., Dong, P., Li, Z., ...Luo, Y., An, Fengwei *, Robot navigation based on pseudo-binocular stereo vision and linear fitting, Proceedings of 2020 IEEE International Conference on Integrated Circuits, Technologies and Applications, ICTA 2020, 2020, pp. 174–175, 9332014